NJP_TEX Linguistics of Discourse (lecture)

Faculty of Education
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Káňa, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Káňa, Ph.D.
Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Helena Rytířová
Supplier department: Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable
Fri 2. 3. 13:00–13:40 učebna 62, Fri 9. 3. 13:00–13:40 učebna 62, Fri 23. 3. 13:00–13:40 učebna 62, Fri 13. 4. 13:00–13:40 učebna 62, Fri 27. 4. 13:00–13:40 učebna 62, Fri 11. 5. 13:00–13:40 učebna 62
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The lecture presents the linguistic of discourse as a relatively new philology discipline and its aims, topics and possibilities of the text analysis. The description of texts is based on de Beaugrande's and Dressler's constitutive features and regulative principles of texts. The analyses are made exclusively on authentic German texts.
At the end of the course the students can analyse German texts from the text linguistic points of view (coherence, cohesion, discourse aims, intention, situation, intertextuality etc.), the can also assess various elements of the text cohesion and coherence and compare them with the Czech ones.
Syllabus
  • Linguistics of Discourse as a part of philology, its aims and goals Text and “texteme” (text invariant), definition of text, text and “non-text”
  • Constitutive and regulative principles of textuality
  • Cohesion and coherence
  • Description of cohesive and coherence elements in texts (recurrence, pro-form, deixeis…)
  • Pragmatic features of text: intentionality, informativity, situationality, intertuxtuality)
  • Boarders of acceptability
  • Cohesion and coherence in parallel texts
Literature
    required literature
  • BRINKER, Klaus. Linguistische Textanalyse. Eine Einfuhrung in Grundbegriffe und Methoden. 2. vyd. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1988, 151 s. ISBN 3-503-02275-9. info
    recommended literature
  • BEAUGRANDE, Robert-Alain. Einfuhrung in die Textlinguistik. Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1981, 290 s. ISBN 3-484-22028-7. info
  • BEAUGRANDE, Robert-Alain de and Wolfgang U. DRESSLER. Introduction to text linguistics. 1st publ. London: Longman, 1981, 270 s. : g. ISBN 0-582-55486-1. info
Teaching methods
lecture; reading theory
Assessment methods
a discussion over a thesis on a text-linguistics topic
Language of instruction
German
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
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